Poems that can't be made better by using more than three words

[shemthepenman]

broad ripple, indiana? which is just off Berkley road! i was right about berkley.

[QDeathstar]

I think you need to look at the map

[shemthepenman]

I think you need to look at the map

yeah, i probably should, but i'm already kinda bored of this game now you've given the key. it's like watching a magician flying about on stage, once you realise he's on wires the specifics of the mechanics are incidental; and, this is precisely why a poem with one obscure cryptic meaning has little value beyond its own self contained meaning: because, like beckett said of his own work, once it is definitively explained one has no more use for it. it was just a distraction all along, like a crossword puzzle, instead of making you think it actually stops you from thinking [deleuze].

[QDeathstar]

going to go take a shit, will ponder what you have said here,

[ellajam]

Well, I read it as a poem. For me it's a summer road trip to or through Canada or New England until September, if the N is a student, or snowfall, which is probably about the same time in parts of both those places. For me the title gave it a bit of modern romance.

[shemthepenman]

Well, I read it as a poem. For me it's a summer road trip to or through Canada or New England until September, if the N is a student, or snowfall, which is probably about the same time in parts of both those places. For me the title gave it a bit of modern romance.

i am not denying it cannot be read as a poem. and one can most certainly interpret it many different way. but if three effectively random words constitute a poem, then we're all wasting our time.

grin
sleep
cacology

help
loop
not

gram
bleak
twelve

hope
nothing
well

i
eye
aye

small
guitar
shoe

grim
no
help

yes
sun
keep

flow
spider
radiator

i could do this all day. and you can read them how you like. i would, however, like to know how one is any worse than any other. please, enlighten me. that is, how do we determine a standard for three word poems?

[QDeathstar]

Your words are uneven. Mines is even. MINES WIINNNNNNNS.

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clue 3:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/While_Mo...eep_(book)

[shemthepenman]

Your words are uneven. Mines is even. MINES WIINNNNNNNS.

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clue 3:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/While_Mo...eep_(book)

no, yours are even. mine's uneven. i win.

[QDeathstar]

nuh uh.

[shemthepenman]

oh, and obscure book reference. . . done.

if only small shake and fast through motion the critique of dialectical reason

time
swell
further

[QDeathstar]

that belongs in poetry for prays....

[Lizzie]

i am not denying it cannot be read as a poem. and one can most certainly interpret it many different way. but if three effectively random words constitute a poem, then we're all wasting our time.

You think we're all wasting our time all of the time.

Maybe we could judge it on length, like:

shemthepenman's
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
floccinaucinihilipilification

[RiverNotch]

Well, all the fun just got sucked out of this thing, now that peeps are delving into really serious poetry discussion.
I blame whoever kept the dom outfit here, for not coming out at all, while wearing the suit.

[shemthepenman]

that belongs in poetry for prays....

true. you win   curse you sartre!!!

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i am not denying it cannot be read as a poem. and one can most certainly interpret it many different way. but if three effectively random words constitute a poem, then we're all wasting our time.

You think we're all wasting our time all of the time.

Maybe we could judge it on length, like:

shemthepenman's
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
floccinaucinihilipilification

yeah, you're right. but i'm a nihilist, what can you do?

[Lizzie]

Well, all the fun just got sucked out of this thing, now that peeps are delving into really serious poetry discussion.
I blame whoever kept the dom outfit here, for not coming out at all, while wearing the suit.

Wait, is this what the beads comment was about??? I'm so confused....

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[Lizzie]

http://tiny.cc/Zooms_Maple_Until

You have a star!!!!

[next]

You have a star!!!!

YES! And it's a  GOLD ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Lizzie]

You have a star!!!!

YES! And it's a  GOLD ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And a feedback award, look at you!!

I've plateaued at 4 stars. Been there for a while now. It's ok though -- the more stars you have, the higher the expectations of greatness.

[QDeathstar]

Sorry to fuck up your bliss, but I have MOAR feedback awards AND STARS. So, I'm the winner here.